Markers of History

Welcome back, and I hope you had a great hol­i­day week­end. We’re most of the way through my June 23 trip to Portsmouth, but I’m begin­ning to get a back­log, so I hope to post two sites each day for a while to catch up. Once we fin­ish with this Portsmouth trip, there will be a cou­ple from Norfolk that I found on the way home, there will also be one we found unex­pected in Virginia Beach on our way home from Virginia, and then there are sev­eral that I found in Norfolk on Friday when I was there for the re-opening of Town Point Park and the start of Harborfest and on the Fourth of July when we trav­eled to Yorktown and Jamestown. I hope you’re enjoy­ing these as much as I’m enjoy­ing find­ing them!

National Register of Historic Places
Cedar Grove Cemetery

Location: Bordered by Fort Ln, Firehouse Ln, and Effingham St, Portsmouth, VA, 23704

Visited: June 23, 2009, 2:45pm

Transcription of marker:

Cedar Grove Cemetery
Est. 1832
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior

My impres­sions: I feel almost funny about includ­ing this. I didn’t actu­ally get in to the ceme­tery, but I did stand at its gates for a moment look­ing in. I believe there is a Path of History marker for the ceme­tery, but I didn’t man­age to see it that day. I was in a bit of a hurry to get away from a cou­ple of peo­ple I passed on my way to the gates, as well as to get back to the ferry and on my way back home.

I do hope at some point to go back for a proper visit.

If you’d like more infor­ma­tion about the cemetary and the rea­sons for its inclu­sion on the National Register of Historic Places, you can read the cemetery’s nom­i­na­tion form (PDF), which includes details about the his­tory of this place.

Markeroni sta­tus: Logged.